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In this tutorial, I will show you how to make responsive UI for web page using flex boxes and media query. I will redesign one of the examples available on OneMap API Help Web Site. We will see how to make pages using OneMap JavaScript API responsive. Please visit the OneMap API address search example to check the original web page.

1) Inspect the source code

By inspecting the source code, I found that the page is designed using HTML Table. It is quite a simple page with only a few sections, each section embedded in table cell. I am going to use media query and flex boxes to make the page responsive.

2) Put viewport meta tag in the head of the document.

“width=device-width” indicates the screen’s width in device independent pixels. “initial-scale=1.0” to indicates one to one relationship between CSS and device independent pixels.

3) Convert the HTML Table structure into separate sections as follow.

.searchbox and .results are put into .container2 so that they could be moved around together when the screen size becomes bigger.

4) Design smallest view first and use media query for different break points.

5) Slide in the results on the screen when the user clicked the search button.

Edit the displayData( ) function as above to slide in the divResults into the view.

6) Slide back and hide the results list when the user clicked on one of the result, and then show the clicked location on the map.

Add the following code to ZoomTo( ) function to hide the list.

7) Add media query and styles for break point with minimum width 800px.

In a wider screen, container2, which contains search input box and result list, and map area are placed side by side. Result list is put back on screen by setting transform to 0,0.

8) Add media query and styles for break point with minimum width 1000px.

After minimum width 1000px is reached, the contents will stop growing, and left and right margins will be added automatically.

That is! We have a responsive page using OneMap as base-map. This is just a very simple rework on the existing code and by no means a complete work. But you get the basic idea of how to make your page responsive if you are using onemap api in it.

In this tutorial, we are going to implement the address search feature using OneMap REST API. If you want to know more about OneMap, please visit to OneMap API Help page.

We will continue our tutorial from my post how to add OneMap to iOS App, in which I’ve shown how to use ArcGIS iOS SDK and adding OneMap base map and setting map extent. Complete the steps in it before attempting this tutorial.

Add UISearchController And UITableViewControllerWe are going to use the UISearchController to allow users to key in address. The results will be shown in UITableViewController as the user type in the key words. Add UISearchController property and UITableViewController property in the View Controller.

In the viewDidLoad( ) method, add following setup code for UISearchController.

Next, add the necessary delegates to View Controller as follow:

Create a data structure to hold the address dataCreate a structure named Place to hold address name, category, X and Y.

In ViewController, declare an array of Places. This array will be our data model to store the search results.

Implement UITableView delegate protocol methods
There are three protocol methods we need to implement to adopt the UITableView delegate protocol. Add the following methods to ViewController Class.

Implement UISearchResultsUpdating delegate protocol methodUISearchResultsUpdating protocol requires to implement the following method. This allow us to update search results based on the information users enters in the search bar.

Next, we will implement the function to call OneMap REST API to search for the address.

Run the application
If everything goes well, a search bar will be displayed on the navigation controller title place.

When the user type in the search keywords in the search bar, getAddresses function is called and a list of addresses started by the keyword is shown in the table view as suggestion.

Show the selected one on the map viewWe need to implement one more function to show the search result when the user clicks on one of the suggested places. This function is called in tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: delegate method.

Above screen is shown when the user selects City Hall from suggested addresses. The project is available on github. Please leave comments if you have any questions and suggestion.